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LDP Legislators Discuss Legal Regulation of Clinical Research
A healthcare project team of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) held a meeting on March 31 to discuss a plan to legally regulate some types of clinical research that are currently not bound by law and conducted merely based…
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